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1	Eve Green more books like this by Susan Fletcher In this timeless and beautifully told story about family secrets and unresolved liaisons, Eve Green, pregnant with her first child, recalls her mother's death when she was eight years old and her struggle to make sense of her parents' mysterious romantic past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Eva Moves the Furniture more books like this by Margot Livesey On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window--a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night, Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in their small Scottish town. As a child, Eva is often visited by two companions--a woman and a girl--invisible to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Loss That Is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father more books like this by Maxine Harris Maxine Harris gathers information on what it's like to lose a parent at an early age, with stories from C.S. Lewis, Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt and others, who have contributed their personal accounts of pain and growth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Seduction of Water more books like this by Carol Goodman Iris Greenfelder is a perennial Ph.D. candidate, stuck in a rut in her career and her love life. When she decides to write a book based on a story her mother used to tell, however, her life expands in ways she had never dreamed, involving a mystery buried deep in her family history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Flying Troutmans more books like this by Miriam Toews As the Troutmans journey across the United States in search of their father--and experience chaos as diverse as their personalities--they discover one another to be both far crazier and far more normal than any of them had thought. see all copies from $9.45! new only from $9.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Firefly Cloak more books like this by Sheri Reynolds From the author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Rapture of Canaan" comes the haunting story of a young girl's journey to find the mother who abandoned her, set against the backdrop of the Deep South, with all its quirkiness and charm. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing more books like this by Hope Edelman A compilation of personal letters revisiting the subject of the loss of one's mother, written by women in response to the ground-breaking bestseller "Motherless Daughters". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Out of the Shadows more books like this by Sigmund Brouwer After years of wandering the globe, Nicholas Barrett returns to the community he was born into--wealthy Charleston society. This is no warm-and-fuzzy homecoming; Nick intends to unearth the dark secrets of his troubled past and to take his revenge on those responsible for his years of anguish. He finds many dangerous and shocking secrets--but he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Undressing the Moon more books like this by T Greenwood As a child, Piper Kincaid always felt her mother was on the edge of leaving. And then the summer Piper turns fourteen, it really happens. Devastated by this loss, and the rejection she feels from her increasingly distant father, she finds an uneasy comfort with an older man who is equally riddled with sorrow. Discovering desire for the first time, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions
10	Florida more books like this by Christine Schutt "Florida" is the portrait of the artist as a young woman, an orphan's story full of loss and wonder, a familiar tale told in original language. Alice Fivey, fatherless at age seven, is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her love-wearied mother loses custody of her and submits to the sanitarium and years of psychiatric care. A namesake ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Attachment and loss more books like this by John Bowlby This third volume of his Attachment and Loss series explores the implications for the psychology and psychopathology of personality of the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother figure. . Bowlbys seminal contribution to the way we understand attachment concludes with an examination of loss. He offers not ... see all copies from $12.00! first editions
12 view cover	Attachment: Second Edition more books like this by John Bowlby Bowlbys magisterial trilogy analyzes the impact of attachment, separation, and loss, and this first volume focuses on the critical role of the bond between mother and infant in emotional development. Allan Schore, whose pioneering synthesis of neurobiology with attachment research has shown how the brain gets into the act, contributes a foreword ... see all copies from $14.47! new only from $25.33! \| SVS
13 view cover	Loss: Sadness and Depression more books like this by John Bowlby This third volume of his Attachment and Loss series explores the implications for the psychology and psychopathology of personality of the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother figure. . Bowlbys seminal contribution to the way we understand attachment concludes with an examination of loss. He offers not ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $21.01! \| SVS
14 view cover	Motherless Mothers: How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents We Become more books like this by Hope Edelman (Read by) Using a beautifully blended mix of memoir, interviews, and research, the author explores what happens to motherless women as they move into and through the child-raising years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.33! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Loss That Is Forever: 8the Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father more books like this by Maxine Harris Maxine Harris gathers information on what it's like to lose a parent at an early age, with stories from C.S. Lewis, Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt and others, who have contributed their personal accounts of pain and growth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.85! \| first editions
16 view cover	Mother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction more books like this by Diane Eyer In the 1960s and 1970s two paediatricians published a series of articles and books arguing that mothers and their infants must be physically close immediately after birth in order for their future relationship to develop properly. In spite of the fact that the research findings on boding have now been dismissed by most of the scientific community, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.74! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Romantic more books like this by Barbara Gowdy Louise has loved Abel since they were kids together in Toronto. But his family moves away, and the two are not reunited again until years later, when they get together briefly--resulting in Louise's pregnancy. He rejects her, she has an abortion, and when her mother dies, she hooks up with Abel again, only to find he is, by now, a self-destructive ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Don't Touch My Heart: Healing the Pain of an Unattached Child more books like this by Lynda Mansfield, Christopher H Waldmann see all copies from $8.12! new only from $49.46!
19 view cover	Baroque-A-Nova more books like this by Kevin Chong In a heartbreaking and hilarious debut that challenges the notions of family, race, and celebrity, a teenager must face the public obsession with his parents' lives and the far more complicated truth of his mother's death. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems more books like this by Julie Williams In this debut novel in verse, Williams captures life in the 1960s in northern Minnesota. Fourteen-year-old Allie longs for her mother who has abandoned her, grieves for her late father, and struggles to do what's right in an imperfect world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Maternal Deprivation Reassessed more books like this by Michael Rutter see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	In a Dark Wood more books like this by Amanda Craig A major new work by the bestselling author of A Vicious Circle, on a larger scale and more serious than her previous fiction, but with her characteristic satirical edge and page-turningly suspenseful plotting. Benedick Hunter is a man who has lost everything. A failed actor and divorced father on the verge of a nervous breakdown, his life takes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.21! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	When You Go Away: 6 more books like this by Jessica Inclan First Carly's father abandons the family, and then her mother disappears--leaving her to care for her paralyzed 5-year-old sister, Brooke, who fails to thrive no matter how hard Carly tries. When first her father and then her grandfather re-enter the picture, Carly's life takes a turn she could not have expected--and the whereabouts of her mother ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Crazy as Chocolate more books like this by Elisabeth Hyde Isabel and her husband separate, then reunite, just in time for her 41st birthday. Her sister and her father arrive to help celebrate, and the entire family is tormented by memories of her mother, a vivid character who committed suicide when the girls were children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.35! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Watermelon King more books like this by Daniel Wallace Thomas Rider's mother died giving birth to him, and his father is a complete mystery. So when he turns 18, he returns to his Alabama home town and finds out not only the truth about his parents but a few things about the town itself and its inhabitants. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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